Comments on: French Revolution: Enter the Story: Les Miserables

By: mister slim

mister slim — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:34:07 +0000

I look forward to Gillen’s cutting review when that Phonogram comic is finally adapted into a musical.

By: MD

MD — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:44:25 +0000

@ malkav11 I feel that I must urge you to reconsider.

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:36:44 +0000

I am reaffirmed in my strong commitment to never, ever read James Joyce.

By: jarvoll

jarvoll — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:13:46 +0000

ORLY? I can’t stand the 10th-Anniversary edition. They skip half the material, and don’t act. MUCH prefer the full-London-cast edition, though 10th-Anniversary Fantine pwns that puncy Fantine in the FLC; wow, what a voice!

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:42:05 +0000

@Vanderdecken: Hopefully Japanese guy will look familiar.

By: Vanderdecken

Vanderdecken — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:01:14 +0000

@Dorian: heehee, Austrian guy is funny. As is Japanese guy, Hungarian guy and Swedish guy. That DVD is epic, the album I linked to above is simply the audio recording of it. I have both. <3

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:08:42 +0000

I’ve always thought that musicals and RPS did not go well together. Which is why I couldn’t help but imagine them combined–like peanut butter and chocolate. Snarky, British chocolate.

And am pleasantly surprised to see so many people leap to Les Miz’ defense. I think this calls for a song.

By: sinister agent

sinister agent — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:38:41 +0000

I’ll add myself to the roster of people saying it’s a great book. It’s got by far the highest great sentence to boring sentence ratio of anything I’ve read for a good couple of years.

By: AndrewC

AndrewC — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:59:04 +0000

I give it a week.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:51:47 +0000

This is the last time I’ll make a joke about musical versions of Victor Hugo novels.

By: Vanderdecken

Vanderdecken — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:46:32 +0000

Les Misérables (accent police!) is, as has been mentioned, teh shizzle. Book AND musical. Anyone who listens to the original London cast recording and writes it off as crap because the entire orchestra is played on a shite electronic keyboard is right to write off that recording, but not the whole show. Listen to the proper version. Epic show. Epic story.

By: Hypocee

Hypocee — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:45:49 +0000

No, it wasn’t especially illogical for an adventure game, I just wanted to call back to a weird-out-of-context solution that many people would know about :)